Re: how to trace a hardcore-bug in OpenBSD-4.5

2009-09-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
For everyone's reading pleasure: WANTED BY ALL MEANS real name : Marco Luchs suspected handle: dash suspected company : n.runs nationality : german suspected home country : germany place of

Re: OT: Juniper SSL-VPN?

2009-09-16 Thread Diana Eichert
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, patrick keshishian wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Diana Eichert deich...@wrench.com wrote: Since we are already off topic I'd like to point out something. Where I work, we have hardware / software requirements for remote access. Trying to workaround the system

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Eric Furman
Oh, these arguments are rich! They never cease to crack me up. So and so crypto cipher is weak...blah blah blah... Show me the cluster of supercomputers than can break them in any kind of meaningful time frame and I *might* start to worry. Oh wait, I forgot about those super secret NSA ones...

Re: OT: Juniper SSL-VPN?

2009-09-16 Thread Lars Nooden
Diana Eichert wrote: You should ask your corporate types if they support you as a user Any question starting like that is going to get answered quickly NO! by PHBs. Ask if they support SSL connections. That will tell you if they are trying for 'security' but simply unable to, or if they have

Re: how to trace a hardcore-bug in OpenBSD-4.5

2009-09-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-09-15, paranoid.gand...@googlemail.com paranoid.gand...@googlemail.com wrote: A process died and became a zombie process in a screen-session. The process was irssi and thus not critical. I tried to kill the zmbie-process without luck. zombies are undead, you can't just kill them, you

smtpd update

2009-09-16 Thread Jacek Masiulaniec
Hi, smtpd has recently benefited from many changes to the local and remote delivery code paths. Their aim is to advance smtpd few steps further to being well suited for production use. I have been working on this for a number of weeks, and to put it bluntly - the changes are massive. So,

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Milan Bartoš
I still hear people telling that OpenBSD is secure. It's of course true, but e.g. vnconfig uses quite weak crypto mechanism. Will you break mine? Sorry, I won't :-) I just wanted to know what's true on that (read thread some time back where this is discussed).

Re: how to trace a hardcore-bug in OpenBSD-4.5

2009-09-16 Thread paranoid . gandalf
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:08:03 -0500 Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: For everyone's reading pleasure: *cut* If violence makes you happy you might get statisfied some day. And you wonder why the Project gets less and less financial support? People like you make people like me not

Re: how to trace a hardcore-bug in OpenBSD-4.5

2009-09-16 Thread Bret Lambert
More of that string leadership we've been warned about... On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:40 AM, paranoid.gand...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:08:03 -0500 Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: For everyone's reading pleasure: *cut* If violence makes you happy you might get

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Milan Bartoš
I still hear people telling that OpenBSD is secure. It's of course true, but e.g. vnconfig uses quite weak crypto mechanism. Will you break mine? I just wanted to know what's true on that (read thread some time back where this is discussed). Claiming its weak seems like a bad way to get

Re: how to trace a hardcore-bug in OpenBSD-4.5

2009-09-16 Thread paranoid . gandalf
A process died and became a zombie process in a screen-session. The process was irssi and thus not critical. I tried to kill the zmbie-process without luck. zombies are undead, you can't just kill them, you need to find the process which created them and attack that instead. Realized it!

Re: how to trace a hardcore-bug in OpenBSD-4.5

2009-09-16 Thread Janne Johansson
paranoid.gand...@googlemail.com wrote: The OS got totaly corrupted. gdb, su, sudo do segfault for example. 8 But later my ssh died again and after that the server finaly broke down. Beyond the point of what fsck can handle. During auto-fsck the box reboots. A good bug I'd say... ran

Re: how to trace a hardcore-bug in OpenBSD-4.5

2009-09-16 Thread paranoid . gandalf
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:01:45 +0200 Janne Johansson j...@it.su.se wrote: paranoid.gand...@googlemail.com wrote: The OS got totaly corrupted. gdb, su, sudo do segfault for example. 8 But later my ssh died again and after that the server finaly broke down. Beyond the point of what

long running cron script, sendmail question

2009-09-16 Thread Chris Bennett
I have a long running script running out of cron. Most of the time is spent sleeping, but takes a few hours overall. userx 31929 0.0 2.4 9116 12156 ?? S 5:39AM0:09.27 /usr/bin/perl /home/userx/LWP/LWP_ref.pl _postgresql 29990 0.0 1.4 3892 7328 ?? Ss 5:39AM0:00.33

Re: smtpd update

2009-09-16 Thread Gilles Chehade
Please, do not wait for others to try it, I just can't hear another I will try it soon, I was just waiting for other people's feedbacks ... Gilles Jacek Masiulaniec a icrit : Hi, smtpd has recently benefited from many changes to the local and remote delivery code paths. Their aim is to

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Re: smtpd update

2009-09-16 Thread Gregory Edigarov
Gilles, I've already started using it in production (yes, with my own non_accepted_aliases_patch ;-). So far - all good, seems to be very robust and pretty stable. I will of course send you a note if I will notice some troubles. And for the others to record I have to notice the very clean code

Re: OT: Juniper SSL-VPN?

2009-09-16 Thread Diana Eichert
Since I contributed to an Off Topic thread to become even more off topic I'll continue. I don't know about you but I work for my employer, they don't work for me. If senior management gets marketed to by a vendor that could care less about standards, let's see, Microsoft, Cisco, Juniper, IBM

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Christiano Farina Haesbaert
Remember Optimization is the root of all evil from Knuth ? Why optimize something if it isn't needed ? if you show me something that clearly won't solve a problem due to it's performance, it's time to optimize otherwise it's just wasting time. Uhh but this could be faster yeah, and gnu ls could

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:36:49AM -0300, Christiano Farina Haesbaert wrote: | Remember Optimization is the root of all evil from Knuth ? Misquoting does not help your case. *PREMATURE* optimization is the root of all evil. Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd --

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:14:27AM +, Jacob Meuser said that On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:09:32AM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:46:27PM +, Jacob Meuser said that so who's benchmarking install/upgrade time? lost time due to instability? lost

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Christiano Farina Haesbaert
2009/9/16 Paul de Weerd we...@weirdnet.nl: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:36:49AM -0300, Christiano Farina Haesbaert wrote: | Remember Optimization is the root of all evil from Knuth ? Misquoting does not help your case. *PREMATURE* optimization is the root of all evil. Ooops my mistake,

Re: OT: Juniper SSL-VPN?

2009-09-16 Thread Lars Nooden
Diana Eichert wrote: Since I contributed to an Off Topic thread to become even more off topic I'll continue. I don't know about you but I work for my employer, they don't work for me. They have an obligation to see that you have the tools to get your job done in the best way possible.

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Re: smtpd update

2009-09-16 Thread Landry Breuil
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jacek Masiulaniec jac...@dobremiasto.net wrote: Hi, smtpd has recently benefited from many changes to the local and remote delivery code paths. Their aim is to advance smtpd few steps further to being well suited for production use. I have been working on

Re: smtpd update

2009-09-16 Thread Jacek Masiulaniec
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:54:36 +0200, Landry Breuil landry.bre...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jacek Masiulaniec jac...@dobremiasto.net wrote: Hi, smtpd has recently benefited from many changes to the local and remote delivery code paths. Their aim is to advance smtpd

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Henning Brauer
* Cian Brennan cian.bren...@redbrick.dcu.ie [2009-09-15 23:32]: OpenBSD sucks at this one. The fact that base isn't packaged is a *huge* pain if you run lots of it. As is the short support timeline. bullshit. i run way over a hundred openbsd machines. upgrades take me less than 5 minutes.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread - Tethys
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Building from source is light years more difficult than 'apt-get update apt-get upgrade, or 'yum upgrade' or the like. so don't fucking do it, use releases and packages. So how does one remedy CVE-2009-0696 like

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Kay - Syllopsium
From: L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Henning Brauer wrote: Building from source is light years more difficult than 'apt-get update apt-get upgrade, or 'yum upgrade' or the like. so don't fucking do it, use releases and packages. *OR* learn how to use environment

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Ross Cameron
On 15/09/2009, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: i have a bgp machine forwarding 800MBit/s of real world generic internet traffic. can handle at least twice that. enough of a benchmark? Any chance you could post the spec. of said machine? I'd especially be interested in

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Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Henning Brauer
* - Tethys tet...@gmail.com [2009-09-16 17:37]: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Building from source is light years more difficult than 'apt-get update apt-get upgrade, or 'yum upgrade' or the like. so don't fucking do it, use releases

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread - Tethys
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. And that attitude is why OpenBSD will never be more than a hobby OS. Sigh. Tet -- bIt seems

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bob Beck
boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. Once you have a built release you can run upgrades everywhere from that release tarball. man release to figure out how to do that. Now you may ask, why don't we do that? We simply do not have the resources and time to devote racks of

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Nick Bender
If there genuinely is something as easy as yum update bind, then great. But if so, it doesn't seem to be documented, and this is the reason I haven't rolled out more OpenBSD boxen in the real world. I run OpenBSD on my own machines. But I'm with Cian here. Keeping up to date really is its

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Ross Cameron wrote: On 15/09/2009, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: i have a bgp machine forwarding 800MBit/s of real world generic internet traffic. can handle at least twice that. enough of a benchmark? Any chance you could post the spec. of said machine? I'd especially be

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. And that attitude is why OpenBSD will

smtp-vilter is cranky

2009-09-16 Thread Chris
Hi, I have been playing with this for hours now, and I'm getting really frustrated. I'm building an email server, and I want to use smtp-vilter to send my emails through spamassassin and clamav. I'm using obsd 4.5 and sendmail. I keep getting this in my logs: Milter (smtp-vilter):

Re: smtp-vilter is cranky

2009-09-16 Thread Vijay Sankar
Chris wrote: Hi, I have been playing with this for hours now, and I'm getting really frustrated. I'm building an email server, and I want to use smtp-vilter to send my emails through spamassassin and clamav. I'm using obsd 4.5 and sendmail. I keep getting this in my logs: Milter

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. And that attitude is why OpenBSD will

Re: smtp-vilter is cranky

2009-09-16 Thread John Cosimano
--- Chris [Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:44:51PM -0400]: --- Hi, I have been playing with this for hours now, and I'm getting really frustrated. I'm building an email server, and I want to use smtp-vilter to send my emails through spamassassin and clamav. I'm using obsd 4.5 and sendmail.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
Marco Peereboom escribis: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. And that attitude

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Smith
OP Here. Wow. Did not mean to start this sort of discussion. I only wanted some suggestions on how to deal with critics of OpenBSD's performance that I run into on occasion who cite that old, outdated, silly article. Anyway, thanks for all the performance feedback. As to the others, in this

applying errata vrs building userland from source

2009-09-16 Thread Andres Salazar
Hello, What is the best practice when building a new machine, or why would one prefer one aside from the other: a.) Compile kernel and userland from a recent -stable src checkout or b.) Apply all the errata from http://www.openbsd.org/errata45.html ? Both are equivalent is this correct? Thank

Re: applying errata vrs building userland from source

2009-09-16 Thread Daniel Melameth
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Andres Salazar ndrsslz...@gmail.com wrote: What is the best practice when building a new machine, or why would one prefer one aside from the other: a.) Compile kernel and userland from a recent -stable src checkout or b.) Apply all the errata from

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:59:43 -0700 (PDT) 4625 4625...@gmail.com wrote: From: 4625 4625...@gmail.com To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:59:43 -0700 (PDT) Sender: owner-m...@openbsd.org Organization: Buzzer X-Mailer: 4158xHC1dZubQ On

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Cian Brennan
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:24:44PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-09-16, Peter Kay - Syllopsium syllops...@syllopsium.com wrote: At the risk of a flaming, sysmerge is also a pain in the arse. Once you know how to use patch files and diff properly I'm sure it is absolutely wonderful, but it also copes badly with files that have not changed in any

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:22:19PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-09-16, Peter Kay - Syllopsium syllops...@syllopsium.com wrote: At the risk of a flaming, sysmerge is also a pain in the arse. Once you know how to use patch files and diff properly I'm sure it is absolutely

Re: smtp-vilter is cranky

2009-09-16 Thread Chris
Quoting John Cosimano j...@cosmicnetworks.net: --- Chris [Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:44:51PM -0400]: --- Hi, I have been playing with this for hours now, and I'm getting really frustrated. I'm building an email server, and I want to use smtp-vilter to send my emails through spamassassin and

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:59:35PM +0100, Cian Brennan wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:24:44PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: [snipzorz] It is exactly your attitude that has ruined the computer industry. You have an odd definition of professional, and the kind of attitude that

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:30:47PM +0300, Jussi Peltola wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:22:19PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-09-16, Peter Kay - Syllopsium syllops...@syllopsium.com wrote: At the risk of a flaming, sysmerge is also a pain in the arse. Once you know how to

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bob Beck
I think you're missing the point; marco was talking about the dumbing down of what's considered acceptible for being called a professional; in this case, mostly the fact that once you start presenting system administration as a series of buttons to push, you get button-pushing monkeys, not

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:55:44PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: I think you're missing the point; marco was talking about the dumbing down of what's considered acceptible for being called a professional; in this case, mostly the fact that once you start presenting system administration as

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:01:49 + Jacob Meuser wrote: But, I'd like to have hard technicaly data to demonstrate that while Linux and FreeBSD may scale to a gazillion CPUs and PetaBytes of Memory that OpenBSD makes a fine firewall or desktop or mail server, etc and point out that the

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Christiano Farina Haesbaert
Marco Peereboom escribis: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. And that

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:59:35PM +0100, Cian Brennan wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:24:44PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Christiano Farina Haesbaert
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:59:35PM +0100, Cian Brennan wrote: You have an odd definition of professional, and the kind of attitude that sounds like you haven't actually worked in the computer industry in a while. Generally, the computer industry is about providing services to end users. And

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:54:06PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:14:27AM +, Jacob Meuser said that On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:09:32AM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:46:27PM +, Jacob Meuser said that so who's

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:47:08 +0100 - Tethys wrote: And that attitude is why OpenBSD will never be more than a hobby OS. The same words I can say about Linux. -- /4625

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:20:05 -0400 Tom Smith wrote: Anyway, thanks for all the performance feedback. As to the others, in this thread, who find using or managing OpenBSD difficult, I'd say ...make OS for newbies, and only newbies will want to use this OS. -- /4625

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:36:49 -0300 Christiano Farina Haesbaert wrote: Remember Optimization is the root of all evil from Knuth ? To act contrary to common sense would be ignore optimization. Look on MS Windows - each new version require more resources and constrain to buy new hardware every 2-3

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:39:31 +0200 Bret S. Lambert wrote: 1) In X on OpenBSD 4.5 mouse cursor may freeze sometimes. On FreeBSD 4.11 (on the same PC) - never. Doesn't happen for me... Did you ever report this? with information to reproduce it? I do not think so. It is not a bug,

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Raymond Lillard
Bob Beck wrote: boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. Once you have a built release you can run upgrades everywhere from that release tarball. man release to figure out how to do that. Now you may ask, why don't we do that? We simply do not have the resources

Anyone heard from Jason Dixon lately?

2009-09-16 Thread Dag Richards
Hey Jason, been trying to get a hold of you. Are we still doing business?

Re: smtpd update

2009-09-16 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2009-09-16, Jacek Masiulaniec jac...@dobremiasto.net wrote: Hi, smtpd has recently benefited from many changes to the local and remote delivery code paths. Their aim is to advance smtpd few steps further to being well suited for production use. I have been working on this for a number

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:01:02PM -0700, 4625 wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:01:49 + Jacob Meuser wrote: But, I'd like to have hard technicaly data to demonstrate that while Linux and FreeBSD may scale to a gazillion CPUs and PetaBytes of Memory that OpenBSD makes a fine

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Maurice Janssen
Bob Beck wrote: Once you have a built release you can run upgrades everywhere from that release tarball. man release to figure out how to do that. Now you may ask, why don't we do that? We simply do not have the resources and time to devote racks of machines, developer time, and internet

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Dag Richards
I have been actively maintaining a firewall cluster and a VPN cluster of BSD system since 3.5. I have upgraded each system from a factory boot cd every 6 - 8 months. I have never had any problems due the to upgrade not once. I run a 4000 PC network in a 24x7 Health Care environment. There is

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
But, I'd like to have hard technicaly data to demonstrate that while Linux and FreeBSD may scale to a gazillion CPUs and PetaBytes of Memory that OpenBSD makes a fine firewall or desktop or mail server, etc and point out that the old article so many people cite is indeed

Re: Anyone heard from Jason Dixon lately?

2009-09-16 Thread Jason Dixon
ACK -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:14:13PM -0700, 4625 wrote: But, I'd like to have hard technicaly data to demonstrate that while Linux and FreeBSD may scale to a gazillion CPUs and PetaBytes of Memory that OpenBSD makes a fine firewall or desktop or mail server, etc and point out

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread armpit
Marco Peereboom wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. And that attitude is

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Daniel Bolgheroni
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Bret S. Lambert wrote: I think you're missing the point; marco was talking about the dumbing down of what's considered acceptible for being called a professional; in this case, mostly the fact that once you start presenting system administration as a series of buttons to

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bob Beck
But come on Bret, that's what the industry WANTS.. you can PAY monkeys less! Push Butan ...receive bacon lube Keep it Sizzlin! (you can't hear it but I'm doing the little techno pelvic dance right now..)

Re: smtp-vilter is cranky

2009-09-16 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Chris cjd...@brokensolstice.com wrote: I'm building an email server, and I want to use smtp-vilter to send my emails through spamassassin and clamav. I'm using obsd 4.5 and sendmail. I keep getting this in my logs: Milter (smtp-vilter): local socket name

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:55:57PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: I wonder if FreeBSD's patch-playmidi would make any difference. It is not port or patch problem, but perfomance (on my opinion). well, that patch sure looks like it's correcting an inopportune typo. but I'm not a timidity

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-16 Thread Aaron Mason
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:46 AM, STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: On Monday 14 September 2009 14:17:35 you wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:40:36PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: Certainly there are SSDs that work just fine, but from the experiences of friends, I'd say they're at least 3

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Bob Beck b...@ualberta.ca wrote: boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. Once you have a built release you can run upgrades everywhere from that release tarball. man release to figure out how to do that. Now you may ask, why don't we

Re: OT: Laptop advice. SSD costs.

2009-09-16 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Edd Barrett vex...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Dan Harnett dan...@harnett.name wrote: At least here, one could get a used X60 for the cost of the 128GB drive. Yes, I think this is my new plan. Would have been nice to have the

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Carson Harding
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:15:36PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: But come on Bret, that's what the industry WANTS.. you can PAY monkeys less! Push Butan ...receive bacon lube Keep it Sizzlin! (you can't hear it but I'm doing the little techno pelvic dance right now..) And,

Re: RAID1 drive replacement help?

2009-09-16 Thread Jeffrey C. Smith
Paul M wrote: On 16/09/2009, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: I am trying to add a new drive to replace a failed drive on my RAID1 OpenBSD system. I have read the available documentation but can't get the drive added permanently. Here's what I've done so far- ... Any feedback would be

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:57:43PM -0700, 4625 wrote: What if I'm unable make better report? http://www.openbsd.org/report.html

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:39:30PM -0700, 4625 wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:55:57PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: I wonder if FreeBSD's patch-playmidi would make any difference. It is not port or patch problem, but perfomance (on my opinion). well, that patch sure looks like it's